In 1988, the old man Jiang Cheng became popular because of the arrears of 2400 yuan, not because he refused to repay, but because this arrears exposed his true identity that he had painstakingly hidden for 36 years, and at the same time brought people back to an unforgettable past. Our country has experienced a very gray history, during the War of Resistance Against Japan, countless people with lofty ideals sacrificed themselves and sacrificed their lives in order to defend their families and defend the country.
Those who can make great achievements on the battlefield must be one of the best heroes, and if they can survive, they will certainly be praised after the war. The names of these people will go down in history and will be praised and praised by the people. But not everyone likes this form of reward, and some people have a low profile in their lives, so they will hide their merits and fame.
Jiang Cheng was such a person, he made countless achievements in the battlefield, and single-handedly annihilated more than four hundred enemies with heavy machine guns. According to his record, after the end of the War of Resistance, the reward was indispensable. But Jiang Cheng is not a person who likes fame and fortune, after the end of the War of Resistance, he did not mention anything about the contributions he made, retired from the army and returned to his hometown, Jiang Cheng lived in anonymity for 36 years, and even few people knew that he was a veteran of the battlefield.
He joined the army at a young age and made countless military achievements
Born in 1928, Jiang Cheng endured the country's most turbulent moments, and spent his entire youth on the battlefield of war. Because he was plagued by war since he was a child, Jiang Cheng was determined to join the army and hoped to contribute to the country with his own efforts. Before joining the army, Jiang Cheng's family was very poor, a family of seven people, living on only two acres of land, and the only valuable object in the family of the only cow left.
After Jiang Cheng became an adult in 1948, he finally successfully realized his dream of joining the army. After joining the People's Liberation Army, he participated in the Campaign to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. Due to his outstanding achievements on the battlefield, it was not long before he was promoted to deputy squad leader of the machine gun company. As everyone knows, in the course of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the most tragic battle experienced by our army was the Battle of Shangganling. In the course of this engagement, our army and the US army confronted each other for four days and four nights.
In this campaign, Jiang Cheng's task was to suppress enemy artillery fire. This task was the most dangerous, but Jiang Cheng accepted it without the slightest hesitation. His machine gun was very flexible, and with his own operation, he shot down one of the enemy's fighters with a single machine gun, which was unimaginable.
In the course of the engagement, Jiang Cheng was hit by debris and seriously injured, but he did not want to affect the comrades around him, so he endured the pain, even in the case of wounded, Jiang Cheng did not stop the attack on the enemy, with his own efforts, with a machine gun to annihilate the enemy 400 people.
After the battle, Jiang Chengcai, who was seriously wounded, was taken to the hospital, but fortunately God blessed him, and the doctor saved his life. After the end of the war in 1955, Jiang Cheng finally returned to the motherland with the troops. Not long after he returned, Jiang Cheng retired from the army, and he chose to return to his hometown to live. After returning to his hometown, Jiang Cheng did not publicize his merits, but took off his military uniform and treasured it together with the military merit badge, and even his relatives around him rarely knew about his deeds on the battlefield.
Obscure, be an ordinary worker
After returning to his hometown, Jiang Cheng did not bother the state to help him find a job, but found a job in his own sericulture farm and worked silently for more than twenty years. In 1983, his hometown was presiding over the construction of the railway, and Jiang Cheng had done this kind of work in the army, so he had a lot of experience, so he took the initiative to ask for help and joined the railway construction.
But the work did not go well, and the railway was not halfway through construction, and it was forced to stop work because of insufficient funds. At that time, the workers who worked had the idea of leaving, after all, no one's family was rich, and everyone was unwilling to do things that did not earn money in vain. After learning the truth of the matter, Jiang Cheng was silent, and it didn't take long for him to tell the workers working together that they would do the work, that the money would not be worried, and that he would find a way.
In this way, under the promise of Jiang Cheng, the road construction project continued to be completed smoothly. In fact, Jiang Cheng was not rich, and the money paid to the workers for road construction at that time was borrowed from the credit cooperative in his personal name. It wasn't until years later that he told his family about it. 2400 yuan may not be a huge amount of money for many people now, but for the Jiang Cheng family at that time, it took several years to save without eating or drinking.
In order to pay off the loan, they had to sell their son's marriage house and borrow some money from relatives and friends before repaying it. Later, when Jiang Cheng's son got married, because there was no house in the family, he could only go to the woman's house to live. At that time, the countryside called this situation an upside-down door, and generally the son-in-law who inserted the door upside down would feel that he could not lift his head. But Jiang Cheng's son did not care, he was considerate of his father, and he believed that what his father did was a good thing that benefited the country.
The merits are exposed, and the heroes are admired by tens of thousands of people
In 1988, a man named Wang Jueying found a letter while revising the county chronicle. The letter looked old, and when he looked closely, it was the address that had been written incorrectly, so it had not reached the recipient.' The letter was a happy letter, reporting that Jiang Cheng himself had funded the construction of the railway. After Wang Jueying got the letter, he began to look for Jiang Cheng mentioned in the good news, and finally after some effort, he finally found Jiang Cheng.
After Wang Jueying explained the incident in detail, the villagers found that Jiang Cheng had done so many things in obscurity. What they didn't expect was that he had once been a combat hero. Although his true identity was exposed, Jiang Cheng was not proud of it, and he told the people around him that he was a Chinese, so he would insist on doing things for the country all his life. For Jiang Cheng, the two words of the state carry a very heavy weight in his heart, and the interests of the state can be put first.
After Jiang Cheng's true identity was exposed, the state gave him the subsidy he deserved to veterans. Jiang Cheng lived in anonymity for 36 years, for him, fame and fortune have long been unimportant, he did not explain too much about the events on the battlefield that year, after getting the good news, he only treasured it, put it in the depths of the drawer, and did not show it to people.
brief summary
Jiang Cheng's way of dealing with the world is worthy of our reference and learning, he has the country in mind, is simple, and never asks for returns when doing things for the country. He could have enjoyed state subsidies and care after countless meritorious deeds on the battlefield, but he resolutely gave up all this.
And in the absence of his own wealth, even a loan to help the government finish the railroad is admirable. Although these heroes do not covet fame and fortune and choose to live in obscurity, we cannot forget their efforts, we need to always remember their achievements, and learn their spirit of dedication to the country and no return.